"You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly."

-- Albert Brooks

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“I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.”
“We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.”
“In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.”
“Is not all creation a transgression?”
“I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.”
“To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.”
“Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.”
“In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.”

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